Excited to announce the Editor's Choice Longlist!
You'll find these excellent pieces in our recently released
city | country issue:
www.south85journal.com/table-of-con...
CONGRATULATIONS!!

@south85journal.bsky.social
South 85 Journal is a semi-annual online literary journal run by the Converse University Low-Residency MFA Program. We publish fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and interviews, by new, emerging, and well-established writers.
Excited to announce the Editor's Choice Longlist!
You'll find these excellent pieces in our recently released
city | country issue:
www.south85journal.com/table-of-con...
CONGRATULATIONS!!
This is a special issue of @south85journal.bsky.social because it's my first as assistant poetry editor! 💜💛
I might be biased (I am), but this issue is really good: south85journal.com/table-of-contents-2
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
The Fall/Winter 2026 issue of South 85 is LIVE!!
Amazing responses to our open-ended prompt of city | country & we're excited about our new ekphrasis section! Oh, and the featured photographs are 🔥!
All the riches here: www.south85journal.com/table-of-con...
I am so thrilled to see my work in the gorgeous new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! I had the best time serving as Artist-in-Residence for it. Pls check out my portfolio & artist statement & read the amazing writing in this special issue!
Tuck into the Nebraska hills with me.
Pull the pines up and over our bodies like a blanket.
Grateful to have this one I wrote for Holly find its true home @south85journal.bsky.social
So happy to feature your work!!
Hint: it's our Fall | Winter issue!
Thank you for sharing your prose & poetry with us. We've made our selections and are working on pulling together the fall/winter issue: city | country. If you haven't heard back from us about your submission, please email (address on the site). WE APPRECIATE ALL Y'ALL WRITERS!
We're so excited to publish your poem!!